Editing Malbork (section)

===Middle Ages===
The town of Marienburg grew in the vicinity of the castle. The river [[Nogat]] and flat terrain allowed easy access for barges a hundred kilometers from the sea. During [[Prussia (region)|Prussia]]'s government by the Teutonic Knights, the Order collected tolls on river traffic and imposed a monopoly on the [[amber]] trade. The town later became a member of the [[Hanseatic League]], and many Hanseatic meetings were held there.
[[File:Polish artillery during siege of Malbork in 1410.PNG|thumb|left|Polish artillery during siege of the castle in 1410 (modern era drawing)]]
The Teutonic Order weakened greatly after the [[Battle of Grunwald]] against advancing Poles and Lithuanians.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights|last = Turnbull|first = Steven|publisher = Osprey Publishing|year = 2013|isbn = 978-1472800091|location = Oxford, UK|pages = 21}}</ref> The town was burned by the Teutonic Knights in 1410 before the [[Siege of Marienburg (1410)|siege of the castle]] by Poles,<ref name=VM>{{cite web|url=http://visitmalbork.pl/415,HISTORIA.html|title=Historia|website=Visit Malbork|access-date=13 November 2019|language=pl}}</ref> however it remained under Teutonic control after the siege. In 1457, during the [[Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)|Thirteen Years' War]], the castle was sold to Poland by [[Czechs|Czech]] mercenaries of the Teutonic Knights,<ref name=VM/> and the Teutonic Order transferred its seat to [[Königsberg]] (now [[Kaliningrad|Kaliningrad, Russia]]). The town, under Mayor Bartholomäus Blume and others, resisted the Poles for three further years. But when the Poles finally took control, Blume was hanged and quartered, and fourteen officers and three remaining Teutonic knights were thrown into dungeons, where they met a miserable end.<ref name="segfozhek184"/> A monument to Blume was erected in 1864,<ref name=mw/> after the town's annexation by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] in the [[Partitions of Poland]].

The town became capital of the [[Malbork Voivodeship]] in the Polish province of [[Royal Prussia]] (and later also in the [[Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province]]) after the [[Second Peace of Thorn (1466)]].<ref>Stephen R. Turnbull, Peter Dennis, ''Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights'', Osprey Publishing, 2003, p. 58, {{ISBN|1-84176-557-0}}, 9781841765570 [https://books.google.com/books?id=sTr2hHTtK9wC&dq=%22Royal+prussia%22+Poland+1466&pg=PA58 Google Books]</ref>